Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: desperation
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451188462
ISBN-13: 9780451188465

This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town off Nevada’s Interstate 50-and the scariest.

Author: Ken Douglas
Publisher: Bootleg Press
Keywords: desperation
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0974524611
ISBN-13: 9780974524610

Rice has AIDs, got it in prison, Now he feels like he’s got nothing to live for, nothing to be afraid of. So when he’s approached by Police Officer Clay Tredway to kidnapped his wife’s niece, Rice agrees, he needs the money to end his days in style. However, at the last minute Tredway wants Rice to kidnap the son and daughter of billionaire software developer Cyril Radoslaw. Rice doesn’t want to do it, as it complicates the perfect crime he’d worked out, but then there’s that AIDs thing, so he agrees. Race car driver Sara Hackett, Clay Tredway’s wife, comes home early from an

Author: Duane K. Lacoursiere
Publisher: Xlibris
Keywords: desperation
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2010-04-07
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1450063411
ISBN-13: 9781450063418

"What happens when an inhabited planet is about to become uninhabitable? Do the inhabitants just accept their fate and die with dignity? Or do they abandon their planet like rats leaving a sinking ship?Common sense would dictate that a slim chance at survival is better by far than no chance at all. One only has to look at our own medical community to see how far they will go to buy a cancer patient just a few more months of life.Most times, the quality of that life is not even an issue. It does not matter how painful or wretched that life may be, as long as there is more of it.Thus, when th

Author: Rick Mofina
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: gannon, jack, desperation
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2011-03-22
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0778329488
ISBN-13: 9780778329480

Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don’t get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.Journalist Jack Gannon’s estranged sister, Cora, disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now she is frantically reaching out to him for help. Cora tells him about the shameful mistakes she’s made—but she guards the one secret that may be keeping her daughter alive.A twenty-year-old assassin, haunted by the faces of the people he’s exec

Author: Joe Nance
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: desperation, love, poems, suicide, murder
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2003-09-28
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0595292925
ISBN-13: 9780595292929

Take a poetic journey with author Joe Nance, as he struggles to live life on life’s terms. The journey begins with a descent into insanity that leads to the brink of suicide. At the last moment, God’s intervention saves the author and brings him to a realization that there is hope in continuing to live. Anger, self-hatred, self-pity and regret are ever-present, but with God’s help and interaction with other people, he begins the journey back to life.If Murder by Suicide can help just one other person realize that hope is not lost, that life can change, then the writing of the

Authors:Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross,
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Keywords: dinners, desperation
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-01-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 076110481X
ISBN-13: 9780761104810

Developed from "Desperation Dinners, " their nationally syndicated food column, Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross have created a book the features over 250 recipes with tips, time-saving techniques, stocking the kitchen, and more. Even better: they make an unbeatable promise: all the recipes in the book can be done in 20 minutes flat. By taking brilliant advantage of convenience foods-frozen chicken breasts, washed and cut vegetables, pre-baked pizza crusts, salsas, and more-and using easy-to- master techniques (doing different tasks at the same time, "pushing" flavors with bold seasoning), the a

Authors:Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross,
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Keywords: entertaining, desperation
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0761118152
ISBN-13: 9780761118152

Socially inclined but time-deprived? Want to see friends for dinner, but can’t do more than order takeout or meet in a restaurant? Well, help is here. From Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross-whose nationally syndicated column reaches millions of readers through 115 papers comes the perfect cookbook for the harried would-be host and hostess. DESPERATION ENTERTAINING! is filled with 200 marvelous recipes for impressive dinner party food. DESPERATION ENTERTAINING! is a complete game plan for having guests over (children included) without having to spend more than 20 minutes on a dish, or 20